Maxwell A. Davis

Maxwell Agnew Davis (born 28 June 1945) was a private of the US Army who was held captive by the Pathet Lao and Spetsnaz for a month during the Vietnam War. He escaped on 19 February 1968 after fighting his way out alongside Frank Woods, Alex Mason, and Alexander P. Scott.

Biography
Maxwell Agnew Davis was born on 28 June 1945 in New York City, New York, on Long Island. Davis was drafted into the US Army in 1966 at the age of 21 and was sent to fight in the Vietnam War at its height. He was captured in 1968 during Operation India, the United States' invasion of Laos, and was held in a prisoner-of-war camp on the Laos-Vietnam border that was run by Soviet Union colonel Lev Kravchenko. On 19 February 1968, he was let out of his cell by MACV-SOG prison escapees Frank Woods and Alex Mason along with Alexander P. Scott, Private Hacker, and Private Pepper. The group fought their way through the Spetsnaz troops and Davis helped Mason back to his feet after Kravchenko knocked him down and after Woods grabbed Kravchenko and jumped through a window before a grenade explosion. Davis, Mason, and Scott escaped alive, while Woods was MIA and Hacker and Pepper were killed.

Davis returned home as a war hero, and currently lives in Long Island Sound.